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Bold textLeon Hesser

Leon Francis Hesser (born July 27, 1925) is an American international agricultural development specialist and author. Hesser received B.S. (1958), M.S. (1960), and Ph.D. (1962) degrees in agricultural economics from Purdue University. He joined the Foreign Service in 1966 as director of America's program to help increase food production in the then hungry nation of Pakistan. In 1973, he transferred to U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC, where he was director of America's worldwide program to increase agricultural production in developing countries. He took early retirement in 1978 and until the year 2000 served as a consultant in 20 countries of Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. Hesser's most recent book is: Italic textThe Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger Italic text(Dallas: Durban House, 2006).